We are 3Ls - back in school and bitter as ever. While we all will be practicing in different areas after we graduate, one common bond unites us: we can't wait to be done. We come here to bitch and not do much else. So if you're looking for deep thoughts or insightful political commentary, find a different blog to read.

Law School Institutes Socialized Health Care

It is indeed that time again.Classes begin in a few short weeks, and the gunners we work with have reminded us that, lest we get force-fucked with our textbooks, we had best buy them early to avoid paying full cost and wiping out our student loans in one fell-swoop.

So with that thought looming on our minds, we also just received a letter from our esteemed and thoughtful institution of learning: starting this year, all students will be required to have health insurance.For those who don’t have health insurance, never fear!The university will coerce you into paying their program.Just one catch:you can only receive services and prescriptions from a specified clinic… IN ANOTHER CITY!!!

Being industrious and not willing to spend almost $900 on an insurance program which I could almost certainly never use, I went online to price check, and found that other options available to me start at about $100 a month. Not gonna happen. I got hookers and meth to pay for.

Let me just say:to my fellow bitches whose clerkships provide them with health insurance because they are busy working for “the man,” when I come down with Tsitsi virus or extreme anal warts, I will be the first to share them with you.

4 comments:

so, after graduation i'm planning to enlist myself in the navy as a legalman. There i will get training as a paralegal and stuff. When i come back in two years, will it increase my chances of getting into law school?

That said, getting into law school is basically determined by two things: your GPA from undergrad and your LSAT scores. Sure, law schools will pretend that they care about more than that, but they really, really dont. One of my best friends was incredibly well credentialed, had a US Senator writing a letter of recommendation, and had practically run our student government in undergrad. She was not accepted at ANY law school because her LSAT score was too low.

The LSAT (Letting Someone Anally Traumatize you), meanwhile, has absolutely nothing to do with your knowledge of the law, argumentation style or anything else that could be relevant beyond such amorphous concepts as "logic" and "reasoning."

And if you saw some of the people I know who did get into law school, "logic" and "reasoning" can't possibly be that well measured.

But on behalf of all the Law Bitches, good luck. We hope you don't come out as soulless as most of the fuckers we know.

We Came. We Were Snarky. We Disbanned.

The short story: we blogged pretty voraciously while in law school until halfway through our 3L year when law school drama interceded. We abruptly shut down, fearing exposure that would impact our full-time employment options.

Sometimes, there is, unfortunately, no humor in law school or the legal profession.

That was years ago. Since then, we're all gainfully employed. Of the LawBitches, one is a partner and two others are associates in small firms, two are solo practitioners, one works for the government, one is an in-house counsel, one work in non-traditional job in corporate America, and two are also adjunct professors at a law school.

The point is: we all survived. But if you ask us if we're happy? Or if we'd do it over again? Well, you'd get differing responses.

The bottom line: Before you decide to go to law school, be aware -- be very aware -- of what you are getting yourself into.